Assignment for 9/17

Rhetorical Knowledge:

I felt like the Cristo Summary really helped me figure out what things are important and which things can be left out. For example, I don’t think that every time the video switched to when Cristo was drawing is too important for what happened in the video, it doesn’t help move the summary along. It does, however, create good visual transitions while you’re watching the movie, ones that would be difficult to describe in words.

This assignment also made me think about what tense I use when I’m writing.  Looking back at my past writing assignments, I switched between tenses a lot.  I feel like that’s something writers shouldn’t do and I’ m glad that I realized that I was doing it and that I can switch it.  I’ll admit, it took a few drafts to get all of the words to be in the present tense, but I got it at the end.

Critical and Creative Thinking:

I’m a writer that almost always puts my own bias in my writing and this assignment forced me to make a conscious effort to not do that.  It was really difficult for me at first and I still prefer writing where I can use my own voice, compared to when I cannot.

Genre Knowledge:

Summarization papers were new to me until I wrote this paper.  I definitely didn’t expect it to be as difficult for me to write as it was.  Up until this paper, I would’ve used things that weren’t in the actual video.  I probably would’ve done extra research on the topic and would’ve added what I researched into my paper, but that isn’t what summarization papers are.

Mechanical Knowledge:

This was one of the first papers I have written where I did multiple drafts without my professor asking me to do so.  I revised this paper more than I had ever done before, which is weird for me.  I usually feel really confident in my first draft and I can’t think that there are things I can revise to make my paper even better.  With this paper, though, I felt like there was always something that could be switched or reworded or something of that nature. I believe I revised this paper five to six times total.